1/1989 Appointment as university professor C3 and deputy director of the university department of dermatology, Klinikum Steglitz of the Free University of Berlin, Germany 5/1990 Appointment as director department of dermatology, medical centre Minden, Germany 2016 Appointment as university professor W3 and director of the university clinic for dermatology, venerology, allergology, and phlebology, Johannes Wesling Medical Centre, UKRUB, University of Bochum, Germany Speciality: Dermato-Oncology, Dermatopathology Guiding pivotal clinical studies in Melanoma and cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma 2016 German skin cancer price awarded for “Complete lymph node dissection versus no dissection in patients with sentinel lymph node biopsy positive melanoma (DeCOG-SLT): a multicentre, randomised, phase 3 trial” Past President of the German Dermatological Society Past President of the EORTC/CLTF group Honours: 2017 ILDS Certificate of Appreciation for International Leaderschip 2023 Karl Herxheimer Medal of the DDG 2023 Walter Lever Medal 2024 Günter Stüttgen Medal Memory lectures Karl Herxheimer, Frankfurt 2014 Erich Hoffmann, Bonn 2015 Alfred Marchionini, Hamburg 2023 Klaus Wolf, Salzburg 2023